• What are you doing nowadays? What were you doing when you joined?
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joined in '09, did fuckall back then and i'm still doing fuckall lol at least then i was in high school and college now i have nothing haaah i'm going to miss this place
It worked like a batch download for entire SVN Depositories. First you created a folder and then you right-clicked it and selected "Checkout with SVN". Then you inserted the Wiremod SVN URL into the Magnet Link bar and named the folder... You also inserted the password "wiremod" when prompted. Tortoise then scanned the folder and compared it to the contents of the SVN Server. Then it began to synchronize all the files by downloading, deleting, or editing them. Basically it was a "Huge Github Manual Dropbox".
Jesus fucking Christ you just shined a light on a portion of my mind I totally forgot about
joined when i was 12 as elitehakor for garrysmod stuff. i dont remember a lot from that time, but i do remember getting banned by dragon for racism in the lmao pics thread. now im 23 and i'm a software engineer at a top 5 defense contractor, and every day i get to work on cool shit. it's a shame to see this place go. i didn't participate much here anymore after the switch to newpunch but i still followed a bunch of threads here and used SH as my general news aggregate. it's also wild to think that some of the friends i've met here i've known longer than my irl friends. i'm still not sure if i'll be making the jump to knockout. if i don't, i don't think many people here will miss me but i'll definitely be missing you all
Needed a community after Pulsar Effect was shut down (The first iteration with Hunts and BlackFur). Just kinda stuck around even though I stopped playing gmod a year or so later.
Ah, that makes a lot of sense actually.
joined fucking ages ago when I was in early high school, now I'm nearly 24 and training to become a lawyer. weird that I've probably checked this forum nearly every day for that whole time and in a few hours it's gonna be gone.
In these dark times, and times of reflection, It's nice to see myself mentioned in a positive way. I'm glad I was able to make part of the experience that at least a few people look back on fondly. I'm still trying to get back into doing Source stuff after a bit of a hiatus, both Ninja Nub and I are still somewhat around on the FP Screenshots section discord (now the Source Art Colony after they rebranded). As for the thread's topic, Me? I was a lurker for a long time in the beginning, made an account around 06/07, lost the password and made this account in '08. Back then I was a highschooler learning to map for the Source engine, the FP mapping section was my home for a good 4 or so years. I gradually shifted over to the screenshots section, Personal Skins, Espionage Wars, and the Models & Skins communities. Can't forget the FP Minecraft Max No Relax community and the Facepunch Airsoft subforum, 393 till I die. 10+ years later, now I'm working in a lab helping much smarter people develop sandpaper while still dabbling in Gmod and SFM, still talking to some of the best friends I made while posting here. I'll miss mindlessly scrolling through FP, LMAO pics and the news sections. FP has been my time killer, my news feed, and my internet home for most of my formative years and it'll be sorely missed. I hope the community doesn't fragment too much and that Knockout can keep the spirit going for years to come. It's been a blast, FP. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/107029/22860f04-2f69-4a91-b5d7-89d8a17b1f28/IMG_0144.JPG
It started when I found a server on the minecraft server list called "Heavy Petters" by @Shadaez . I can't remember much besides building shitty structures and playing spleef, but it was fun and other players said they were on some forum called "Facepunch." I joined and made my way to the newest minecraft thread (at that point v4). Everyone already with a minecraft account could give the game away to someone for a holiday promotion at that time, and Shadaez gave an account away to me on new years eve. Cool stuff. That was ~10 years ago. Back then I was an awkward kid in 7th grade that wore a fedora at the bowling alley with my other nerdy friends, went to anime conventions cosplaying as a headcrab zombie, buying shitty overpriced Valve posters, having serious opinions about anime, and getting in to Linux for the first time. Then I joined a RP server called "Age of Mines" run by @Oskutin and hosted by @Dragory . This was a lot of fun for a year, and eventually @Loriborn and I took over. It faded away, but taught me a lot about leadership and planning. Around the same time I found 2b2t on and brought it to facepunch's attention with a thread. This caused a surge in popularity and now Facepunch is somehow in the annals of "2b2t history," whatever that is. To this day there's still kiddos on reddit contacting me to ask where the facepunch base coords are. For some nostalgia check out this video of Fort Creationism Corner. It's been years since I came back on facepunch and now it's to play minecraft again on a facepunch/knockout hardcore server, max no relax v2 (pls join). This blogpost is because there's no other online community that I've spent so much time on, and I've been a member here for almost half my lifetime. Joining Shadaez' server in 2010 brought me on a wild journey and that path is honestly the reason I am where I am today. From the time I joined to now I went from an awkward kid with a bad haircut and a fedora to learning Chinese and programming enough to use both daily at work, moving into my own house, and finally learning to get along with and appreciate my parents. It's so cool to see how far everyone else in this thread came too! Wish I had a chance to meet more of you, especially in real life. See you around knockout or the discord, or maybe garry will change his mind and keep this forum up. Looking at this thread, I'm seeing names that I've seen in passing over the years. I feel like I've missed out on some of the "core facepunch" stuff by not seriously getting in Garry's Mod or modding/scripting/mapping when I was younger. Especially now that I use Unity for my job, I wish I could have learned something from everyone and contributed to those threads. But you can't change the past! Message me on discord (chezhead#7355) or find me somewhere online (embarrassingly enough reddit pms are probably the best bet) if we played together in the old days and you want to reconnect, or even if we don't know each other and you want to chat about programming, philosophy, Chinese, cooking, business, life, or anything. The wired can bring some interesting people together. It's been a ride, and see you guys in Knockout/Discord. -chezhead
I joined 11 years ago in 2008. I thought GMod was a really cool game, but I was probably around 12 y/o and had no way to buy it since it was online only. I played the free version a lot and eventually someone I knew online bought the game for me. It's been my most played game on Steam ever since. Found this forum when I needed help with an issue I was having in the game, and probably about half of my ~1000 or so posts were in the help and support subforum. I've been quietly lurking for a long time now. Anyways, I'm starting medical school in Chicago this fall.
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